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Good to hear from Melinda Burns. I don’t know how it works that the DC appeals court is so conservative, but it is. Some years back, there was a young high school-age African-American woman who was arrested for eating while on the Metro in DC. Arrested and then convicted for a criminal misdemeanor. The crime was actually eating one french fry. She became known as French Fry Girl. Anyway, she turned away from a life of crime and was an A student, got accepted to a good college with a scholarship, but was then turned down for the federal scholarship (I think it as a Pell grant) because of her criminal record. The ACLU took her case pro-bono to the same DC appeals court, asking them to void her conviction so she could get the scholarship. The requisite judge in the case turned down the appeal, stating that while it it would help in her case that it was important that rules be followed to deter crime in others, so French Fry Girl remained a criminal. So who was that judge? A guy named John Roberts, now Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

politics is so confusing, I mean, you're for limited govt, you're against abortion, you're for unlimited freedoms, you're for war on the other side of the world. hypocritical at all? Hey, let's ruin somebody's prospects for a prosperous future because they ate a french fry in the no eating zone. So say we all? Gotta love the law.

Rather than give a half truth here, insinuating that the blame falls on Judge Roberts, why don't you tell the whole truth! A judge cannot override or nullify statute. In order to remove the arrest and conviction from her record, she must - by statute - be factually innocent, which she was not. The real blame lies at the asinine law to begin with, the police for arresting her, the district for prosecuting her and the federal government for the black and white rules regarding student scholarships.

Dou4now: We know what the answer is. When they get angry with political conservatives, (even if their anger is justified) they like to throw in unsupported charges of white racism in order to appeals to people's emotions. It's like those people/politicians who invoke "the children" to garner sympathy.